Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organisations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivalled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionising visuals to optimising tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touch points. Our engineering teams' guiding principle and its philosophy have always been to get things right through practising disciplined engineering, not cutting corners, and of course having fun while we are at it. The Professional Information Business Engineering Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona, who will manage the development, integration, support and maintenance of content processing and editorial applications and ensure that they follow established software development lifecycle best practices. We are looking for creative and passionate engineers who want to be hands-on, design, implement and own code all the way through deployment and in production.
Play an essential role in all stages of the product life cycle, take ownership and have the initiative for building new software and ensure existing is functioning
Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
Lead technical discussions and lead technical decisions covering their responsibilities
Understand and practice Agile software development and management
Build rigorous load, stress and performance unit tests before deploying software
At least 3 years designing, developing, and deploying backend applications
.Net Framework with C# in building robust applications including asynchronous programming, queuing, caching, logging, xml/json serialisation and security
Troubleshooting middle-tier and database applications
Experience with SQL Server with T-SQL and stored procedures, focusing on transactions, ACID compliance, data normalisation, and query optimisation
Competent in data access from .NET using ORM (Entity Framework or Dapper) and direct queries
Proficiency writing unit, functional, performance, soak, and stress tests
Familiarity or interest in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Chef)
Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and AWS or Azure
Knowledge of designing RESTful JSON APIs
Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program)
One week of remote work per quarter
Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process.